Washburn v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Tyler. Tried below before Hon. W. H. Ford. On a trial, under indictment charging him with murder of one W. J. Colvin, appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at a term of twenty-five years in the penitentiary. In view of the question on which the case was disposed of on this appeal, it becomes unnecessary to give a statement of the facts adduced in evidence in the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at a term of twenty-five years in the penitentiary.
One of the grounds of the motion for a new trial was, in substance, that defendant had not been accorded a fair and impartial trial, in that D. E. Pope, one of the jurors who tried the case, was not a qualified and competent juror, in that he was biased and prejudiced against defendant, and had determined his guilt prior to sitting on the jury, although he qualified himself as a juror when examined one his voir dire. The defendant and his…
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